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RICHMOND – When Majorie was 8 years old in the early 1930s, she came home from school in the Texas community she grew up in to find her mother and a friend talking about a neighbor woman who had just died, leaving four children behind. "This woman had tried to abort a pregnancy. She had used, apparently, a coat hanger, and she bled to death. It really makes me sad to talk about it, even now." Marjorie said, choking up. "I was terribly, terribly upset about it." The 87-year-old grandmother from Newport News, who asked that her last name not be used because of the sensitive nature of the topic, was haunted by the incident. She said she never wants women to be put in...

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